I called my ISP today to set up a static IP because my services keep being taken down from my IP changing. I either need a business plan or a 5-10gbps residential plan to do that…
I cannot get on the business plan without a valid Business ID so that’s not an option. And no way in hell I’m paying for those speeds.
Anyone have any alternatives to stop this from happening so often? My public IP seems to change regularly every 2-3 weeks and it’s getting pretty frustrating having to reconfigure things. I only have 2 ISPs in my area and they are both terrible. I assume I’m out of luck, but maybe there’s some tech magic I’m unaware of.
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I use duckdns.org and then make use of CNAME records pointed at the duckdns record for my own domain name/subdomains.
My router (unifi device) keeps duck DNS up to date with my changing IP, but there’s lots of ways to get that done.
You could consider tailnet or similar as well?
Since nobody mentioned, I recommend https://desec.io/ as the DNS provider. Has a good REST API to update records, also provides a
dedyn.iodynamic domain, and runs as a nonprofit. I thinkddclientwill also support it natively in the next release as well.The solution of renting a VPS also works but usually incurs some cost. You might also want to look into Cloudflare Tunnels
I use tailscale instead of caring about my public IP or dynamic DNS
100% recommend tailscale. I have it set up so that IPs from three different data centers for work and my home are all routed properly, so I never have to do anything special to connect to anything. It’s like super simple and amazing.
I think the default solution for this is to use a dynamic dns. There are services for that or you can get yourself a domain and configure that as dnydns in your router. That is what I am doing atleast
DDNS is the way. Or was, until Tailscale.
Still kinda is. Some devices might not be able to connect to your tailnet. You might be trying to reach your devices from a device that isn’t on your VPN. The funnel might work, if you can work within its limitations.
I pay $5/mo for a VPS and host Nginx Proxy Manager on it
Wouldn’t your bandwidth then be restricted to the bandwidth of VPS? How much bandwidth does a 5$ VPS give?
Vultr allows up to 1TB/mo of bandwidth for $5/mo. Plenty for what I use it for
If you’re in the US, anyone can set up a business bank account using your own SSN. It’s called sole proprietor. You’d just have to register for an EIN with the IRS. You might have some state procedures too. It’s generally not difficult to do this, especially if having a business ISP account is what you want.
Most ISPs charge insane fees for static IPs (like 4-5x the monthly rate of dynamic IP accounts), so while this is an option, it’s a relatively expensive one.
Most ISPs charge insane fees for static IPs
The joy of living in the US I guess. My ISP in Australia charges $5 a month for a static IPV4 address.
The joy of having a crown corp in a province of Canada providing real competition gives me 2 free static IPs.
It’s not worth it unless you’re trying to run something like an email server or a name server. Most things work just fine with dynamic DNS. A few minutes of downtime on a personal site when the IP address changes is not a big deal.
If you have a domain on cloudflare you can make it point to your public ip using something like this https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns
Also some routers, like tp-link, have a ddns feature where they provide you a domain that points to your public ip
It’s been very long since I’ve had to mess with this, I don’t even know which machine it runs on. But somewhere, I have a Cron job that runs a curl to namecheap with a magic string. That magic string confirms I am the owner of that domain and namecheap will automatically update the IP address for that URL to whatever IP address my curl came from.
Ddns as others said or use cloudflare dns with cloudflare tunnel
Do you need to publicly expose your services?
I personally use a VPS with Wireguard
This is the way
afraid.org for dns and they have a dead simple way to keep it up to date. I have it running at work in a crontab that sends the current IP every thirty minutes. The site looks old because it is but it functions great.
Duckdns.org and then set up a cron to update it regularly
Bruh mate.
Mine changes daily so stop complaining that hard xDHonest suggestion: Just set up a dyndns with any dns peovider that supports automations.
Proxy through a VPS, or use dynamic DNS if you don’t mind occasionally waiting for TTL expiration when your address suddenly changes. You can set it to 1 minute and that often works these days (it didn’t always).
Will your ISP give you a static IPv6 block? It’s v4 that’s scarce, but if it’s just for your own stuff and you aren’t worried about users on old v4-only networks, it’s fine to just use pure v6.
If you want a super cheap VPS with static ipv6 and NAT v4, try tierhive.com.
That is a bit crazy if you are in the US. There is no ‘business Id’ just say you are a sole proprietorship, meaning the business is just you, no corporation structure or anything like that and you are dba, doing business as, and your name.
That is how you technically describe yourself when you are a business when you are a person.
Your tax id number would just be your social security number.
It’s legal to transact business as a person.
Well that’s some good info to have in general. Think I’m okay with using DDNS but this is good to know.
Yeah, it’s easier to start a business than people think.
